[78-L] Hello and a question

[David Lennick]

This was done on many recordings, such as most of Toscanini's in the 1930s, by 
feeding the audio to one cutter and having a second one ready when the 
engineers were getting near where the record should end. Then they switched the 
audio feed to the second cutter. Sometimes this was a very abrupt change and 
there would be a lot of blank grooves at the beginning of the second side while 
they waited for an appropriate place to make the change (and sometimes they 
were almost too late).

Some recordings were made at 33RPM on long-playing sixteen-inch discs and 
transferred later to 78.

dl

Pablo Varela wrote:
> Hello all :)
> I have a big doubt about history of recording of live events in 78's era.
> For example, what kind of machine was used for recording Mahler's Ninth by Bruno Walter in Viena 1938. Common shellacs have 4 minutes playback by side. How was recording this performance without a break?
> I hope I was clear because I usually speak in spanish.
> Thank you in advance.
> Pablo Varela.
> 
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